Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Waller, Robert Tyler 1851 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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ROBERT TYLER WALLER. Of distinguished Virginia ancestry, Robert Tyler Waller,
a well-known business man of Savannah, comes from a stock that has produced
strong characters, particularly as soldiers, since early colonial days. A
notable example of the soldierly element of the present generation of the family
is Col. L. W. T. Waller, who successfully conducted operations against the
insurgents in the Philippines, and later, when determined action was necessary,
was sent to China. In the war between the states, every member of the Waller
family in Virginia who was eligible to military duty joined the Confederate
service.
A native of Virginia, Mr. Waller was born May 17,1851, at Williamsburg, a son
of William Waller, who was the third in direct line to bear that name.
Benjamin Waller, the great-great-grandfather of Mr. Waller, was a life-long
resident of Virginia, and a man of great prominence and influence. He was born
in 1716 and died in 1786. He was one of the leading members of the Virginia
convention of 1775-1776, and during the Revolutionary war was judge of the
admiralty court of that state. His son, Benjamin Carter Waller, was the next in
line of descent, and his son, William Waller, second, married a daughter of
Thomas and Mary, and granddaughter of Cyrus Griffin, who was the last president
of the continental congress.
William Waller, third, spent his entire life in Virginia. He married
Elizabeth Tyler, who also belonged to a noted Virginia family. Her father, John
Tyler, a native of Williamsburg, Virginia, was active and prominent in public
life, serving as a judge, a member of congress, United States senator, as
vice-president, and as the tenth president of the United States. Her
grandfather, the maternal great-grandfather of Mr. Waller, John Tyler, Sr., was
born in Virginia in 1748. He, too, acquired distinction as a patriot and a
statesman. He was a delegate to the Virginia convention of 1774; speaker of the
House of Burgess; judge of the court of admiralty; as such deciding the first
prize case after the War of the Revolution. He was called the “Patriot of the
Revolution." He served as governor of Virginia, and was judge not only of the
state district court, but of the United States district court.
Growing to manhood, Robert Tyler Waller completed his early studies in
Lynchburg, at Norwood College, a famous institution of learning of the past
generation. A resident of Savannah, Georgia, since 1871, he has been engaged,
principally, in the cotton industry since that time. In 1905, Mr. Waller became
a member of the firm of Derby & Waller, cotton warehouse men, and has since
carried on an extensive and profitable business, their warehouse being one of
the largest in the city. In September, 1912, Derby & Waller dissolved
partnership, each party now being in business for himself.
Mr. Waller married, in Savannah, Miss Emily Greene Johnstone, who was born in
Georgia, and likewise comes from a family of worth and distinction, being a
great-granddaughter of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, the friend of George Washington,
and commander of the troops of the Southern colonies during the Revolutionary
war. Robert Tyler Waller, Jr., the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Waller, is
treasurer of the Carson Naval Stores Company of Savannah.
Additional Comments:
From:
A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN
VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913
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